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Tag: Edmond Hamilton

  • THE COMPLETE ADVENTURES OF LUCKY STARR by Paul French (Isaac Asimov)

    [S]everal posts ago, I listed some of the SF novels that I\’d picked up recently, among them two of Isaac Asimov\’s Lucky Starr juvies that he wrote back in the 1950\’s under his Paul French pseudonym. Well, that set me to searching for the only single-volume omnibus of all six Lucky Starr novels, which I…

  • PLANETS OF WONDER edited by Terry Carr

    TITLE: PLANETS OF WONDER – A TREASURY OF SPACE OPERA EDITED BY: Terry Carr CATEGORY: Short Fiction SUB-CATEGORY: Anthology PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, Tennessee, 1976 FORMAT: Hardback, 1st Edition, 189 pages, ISBN: 0-8407-6526-6 CONTENTS: Introduction by Terry Carr \”Dust of Gods\” by C. L. Moore (Weird Tales, August 1934) \”We Guard the Black Planet!\”…

  • Reading Science Fiction

    Reading Science Fiction literature has always been one of my main interests in life, and I\’ve been reading \”proper\” science fiction since I first signed out H.G. Wells\’ The Time Machine from the local library at the tender age of about eight or nine years old (circa 1969-1970). I usually prefer older (classic) SF, pre-\”New…

  • It’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Two)

    The Golden Years – Geek Nirvana During the Seventies [T]he start of our teenage years is the sweet spot for the vast majority of us, particularly geeks, the beginning of what is probably the most fondly remembered period of our lives. It\’s long enough ago that most of our memories are fond, rosy ones, but…

  • It’s a Geek\’s Life… (Part Two)

    The Golden Years – Geek Nirvana During the Seventies The start of our teenage years is the sweet spot for the vast majority of us, particularly geeks, the beginning of what is probably the most fondly remembered period of our lives. It\’s long enough ago that most of our memories are fond, rosy ones, but…